OPINION  Your well-written article on farming in the Canadian breadbasket of Manitoba and Saskatchewan was greatly appreciated by me. (Jan. 12 issue of Agri-View) Three of my great-uncles as poor, young men in 1911 emigrated from southeast Iowa to Saskatchewan and started homesteading. They each got a quarter of a section – 160 acres. The first year they did nothing but clear land of rocks and build one house. The following year Ralph’s wife, Louise, came up and their first child died. Lacking shoes they thought they could not attend the funeral, but the neighbors – each several miles distant – got shoes for them. They struggled and met their homestead agreement in the second year by raising crops on 10 percent of the land. Ralph, like my father, was one of the happiest and humorist men whom I have known, despite being deaf.